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A few months ago, I convinced my startup to try bitbucket because of the free private repos. Over the course of a month or two, there were multiple times that I could not collaborate with my teammate because bitbucket was unreachable. We have since switched to github, pay a small fee per month, and have never had this issue.

How is everyone else's up-time experiences in the past few months? I'm setting up a few personal projects and would like to give them another shot if they've improved that one aspect.

I'm not affiliated with either company.
> Cheating degrades the quality of education at any level.

Not in the least! You can argue that it degrades the prestige or something like that, but the education remains the same.
That's not really specious if you understand the rest of Kubrick's reputation and work history. Kubrick was well known for pretty much running the editing room (a big deal, since editors are usually given at least a degree of independence on the first cut) and also wrote the screenplays for most of his films. A single person taking the role of director/editor/screenwriter is pretty much unheard of in the industry.
Though the expression version of => comes pretty close to TCP.

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The fact that you're talking about "major revision number" means that you're still thinking about this from the old perspective. There is no "major version number". There is just a number that gets incremented with each release. They could have just as easily used the date as version number. Now I'm thinking that maybe they should, just to get rid of this senseless discussion.
I am really curious: Why does getting access to the source code matter?

(I am just asking since it seems to be a selling point, and I have never really modified the code of a tool that I have used. For example, how many people modify Eclipse, or Maven, or BugZilla's source code?)
So many great memories. I fooled around with emulators a while back, and you're right its not the same as the real thing. I still have an A2000 and A4000, but sadly sold the A500 and gave my A1200 away.
"Pump 6" is a fantastic book. I find the genre of Science Fiction short stories is very hit-and-miss. Pump 6 is a hit.
A similar design to TCP/IP - sequence numbers, acknowledgements & resending capability on sender side
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and others launch webplatform.org
No, I didn't and I wouldn't. I already mentioned, as an average user .... I don't think average users care for bugs or gripes via reports.

In any case, given that my comment is being treated like any other noise, here's a few words to make it distinguishable...for whatever it is worth and for whoever that cares.

1. Whatever the heck is happening with Tags in bookmarks? Is anyone working on adopting any standards? People don't realize but holding up your bookmarks in FF via Tags is a death trap. Chrome apparently is not willing to support the tags and you will be stuck with FF if you care deeply about Tagging your bookmarks. Besides, FF for long has stopped innovating (read developing) their Bookmarks Manager.

2. Speed: No matter what anyone says and no matter the reasons, Chrome is certainly speedier. Besides, in my example (I use only two add-on and limited number of tabs) my hard drive spins and makes noise whenever I am on FF and it is absolutely silent when I am on Chrome (please don't blame my profile for it, I use multiple profiles and I know how to clean etc).

3. Syncing on Chrome is as straightforward as it should be and they also encrypt data.

Just a few on top of my list.
I hope they keep plugging away at making their developer tools better. I use Firefox as my main browser, but I often have to switch to Chrome because Firebug's performance is pretty crappy even on my Ivy Bridge laptop (with 16GB of RAM).
I try to not pay cash ever when there are financing deals available at today's ridiculously low interest rates. Many car makers will have 0% or 1.9% financing and you should take that since there's a reasonable chance you will make more than that back by taking the cash you saved and investing it instead. At 0% financing, it's a no brainer, why give them all your cash up front instead of throwing it into an interest bearing account instead and making some money instead.
Announcing hackPR – a New Way for Startups and the Press to Connect
If free private repos is the only thing that BitBucket offers over GitHub, then they'll not be in business for long.

You cost them money.
I've used Transpact for international payment.
The operating system within the operating system.

It's JavaScript all the way down, folks.
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The grammatical error is not the contraction. "You're thinking about work-life balance all wrong" can be extended to "You are thinking about work-life balance all wrong" The incorrect part is the "all wrong." It should be "You're thinking about work-life balance incorrectly."
Because there's more interest in improving the (publicly accessible) web as a platform than improving installed web apps.

Regardless, to expose such a low-level API would eliminate one of the big advantages of the web: given a browser, I can use any web app on any device. Given, for example, given a TV (which are typically closed platforms, but increasingly often include a fully featured browser), you likely wouldn't be able to install anything that a certain web app depended on (and even if you could, what are the odds that it's been tested on a big-endian platform?).
# there is no 'balance', only this algorithm running my life
while(True):
task=getNextTask()
if priority(task)>priority(current_task):
backBurner.add(current_task)
current_task=task
startWorkOn(current_task)
else:
backBurner.add(task)
Kubrick also had an insane obsession with his tools. Most of Barry Lyndon was shot on F1.0 (EDIT: it was F0.7) glass, which, as far as I know, was only available from NASA at the time and probably can't be found at all today for film cameras.

EDIT: f/0.7, thanks! Holy shit!
Or Kubrick was a past master at getting the upper hand in his directorial decisions

Stanley, we really should shoot the Obelisk with this Panaflex

No, use that one, it was ground out last year by hendrickson in June, when his daughter was doing well in her exams and he always does a better job when his daughter is happy

(holy fuck how do I argue with that)
I suppose it's the latter. That number is pretty much hardware-specific, though it would give us a bit more details if they mentioned the hardware profile.
Not sure if it's relevant but one of the major "DNS providers" (that preceded Google) also chooses to domicile their operations in Ireland. They could just as well locate anywhere, but I doubt they chose Ireland for tax purposes. That just wouldn't make sense, right?
What we have done and what happens to us all accumulates inside ourselves and becomes the basis of our future consciousness and state of mind. Peoples' minds and consciousnesses are comprised of energy. If we use the example of a lightbulb, the consciousness is most akin to an electrical wave produced by the generator and the mind is most analogous to the light radiated by the bulb.

If we work in such a way that produces high entropy codebases, hides problems instead of illuminating them, or produce (or have to work with) highly inter-braided (complicated) architecture with no way or occasion in which to improve matters, then it's easier for people to be caught by grudge at their employer, clients, or circumstance. People can be influenced by these bad circumstances to abandon themselves, and in doing so, their resultant ignorant behavior will make their mind mind become dark. This is a most dangerous circumstance for a human being to live in, so the task of the modern programmer is to find out what they have worth living for, to find a good self, and to protect themselves from wrong relationships and from destroying themselves (through loss of simplicity in one's life) such that they can effect their benefit for themselves and the world. Without individual awakening then it doesn't matter what profession they hold, they still can't guide their life properly. So the most important teaching for programmers to save their way of life is that they have to understand properly what life is, how great a teaching it is for us, and just how precious is the opportunity that we have been given through our lives as human beings.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
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PhoneGap, Apple Rejections, and UI/UX Guidelines
There is a wide gap between fully embracing a technology and spreading misinformation about it. I respect Mozilla's decision not to integrate NaCl, to argue that it's premature to talk about doing so while it's underspecified and coupled to Chromium, and to set criteria that it must meet before it will be on the table for further discussion. I can understand concerns about cost and governance and an unwillingness to jump on what is perceived as a "Google treadmill." None of my comment was about any of that.

What I can't understand is the fundamentalist reaction to the very idea of native code, the ignoring/dismissing of serious work to solve the problem of portability, the liberal use of words like "never" and "non-starter," spread of FUD by invoking inaccurate comparisons like ActiveX (vis a vis its security model) and DLL Hell, and the spreading of misinformation. For example, PNaCl is not, and as far as I can tell never has been, dependent on machine word size. The link you cited doesn't apply because it is arguing against a different approach than what PNaCl actually does.

PNaCl works by defining a little-endian ILP32 machine as the target and fixing all important characteristics of this machine independently of the characteristics of the underlying CPU. This abstract machine's characteristics are defined in such a way that they can efficiently be translated to native code on any modern CPU. This is all covered in the introductory doc: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/native_client/data/site/pnacl...

> a cross-browser approach targeting JS VMs, which are already there and getting fast enough with typed array memory models to compete with PNaCl? (We aim to demonstrate this.)

This is a far more reasonable and compelling story. By all means talk up your stuff and argue that you can win in the free market of ideas. I'm not arguing that I or anybody else should be able to dictate to developers what technology they use; on the contrary it is the Mozilla argument of "no one gets to the machine except through our VM and our GC" that paternalistically ties developers' hands and limits their options.
Good idea, we will try to put together some numbers with regards to message size.
So the sender just keeps trying until it gets an ACK. Fair enough, though I imagine you'd want to run multiple nodes even with this.
Yeah, come on, CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. Stop pandering to stock holders, board directors, and senior management, and go look at a line of text on your photos!
I agree 100%. Github is superb for public projects, but for private projects it is overpriced.
Is There a Method to Achieving Happiness?
Well, part of the reason the Manifesto was made up was to help answer the question of what it even means to be part of "the club" in the first place.

KDE was started to provide a complete desktop environment. Though the work there is certainly not finished by any means, it's predominantly done (and has been so since KDE 3.5, if you ask some).

Yet, KDE developers are branching off into different software types and different hardware form factors. Plasma Active is a mobile platform built on KDE libraries. The ownCloud software stack was started by developers affiliated with KDE and even shared some infrastructure initially. None of these things are part of "the desktop" though.

So, we (at KDE) have had to come to grips with lots of questions. "Are we done? Is this it? If not, what's the reason for continuing, what do we accomplish further?". We've built the community and the software, where do we go from here? And at the end, what is "KDE.org" and what isn't? What does KDE give to those who contribute, and what do we expect of those who carry the imprimatur of a KDE-affiliated project?

It's probably touchy-feely and pretty generic, but then KDE has always been kind of amorphous in my experience, for better or worse.
This works well for non-realtime stuff (e.g. this is how OKCupid does crowdsourced profile edits), but in this instance dkhenry may not see these suggestions for some time (and, in your proposed solution, have an item sitting in the edit queue for approval), while hundreds of people are getting distracted by his typo in the meantime.

You have to be very careful, though, because there may be legal (and definitely social) ramifications for changing a user's submitted content without consent. I know it absolutely enrages me when Flickr auto-lowercases an all caps comment I try to post. ("lazer cat!@!" doesn't have quite the same oomph as "LAZER CAT!@!")
Adobe has warnings long before first drafts of HTML5 fullscreen API.
Another handy trick is to drop vowels, which only costs 6 characters (with y), and greatly reduces the chance that your url will include a noticeable profanity or other undesirable word.
Orbital rendezvous with the ISS has a very tight window (2.5-10 minutes), since on-orbit propellant is very limited. They could add more, and make the window a bit bigger, but that subtracts directly from cargo, which is already small: just 1000 lbs.

The launcher has to drop Dragon basically right underneath the ISS; it approaches by raising altitude just several km. (In orbit, speeding up or slowing down means a change in altitude as well, so catching up or slowing down requires a lot more fuel.)

Since the second stage drops off Dragon just below and a little behind the ISS, a second burn to raise the orbit would necessarily take it past the ISS. NASA is, understandably, very cautious around the ISS. I'm a bit surprised the even allowed a secondary payload boost. It was probably on very, very tight conditions.

Making up for the lost engine probably got them to about the right place, but the different flight profile meant it wasn't the perfect place. Presumably it was inside Dragon's maneuver window, but outside the parameters NASA set for the secondary payload. This could happen if the second stage got too far "ahead" of the ISS due to a longer, lower burn, putting the second stage stack immediately below the ISS instead of below and behind it. Dragon, being in a lower (slower) orbit, can just wait a bit and get in the right position, but the booster could not proceed immediately as it would go too close to the ISS and could not wait as it is battery powered. Thus: secondary payload doesn't get its orbit.

Missing the secondary's orbit is unfortunate, but that is the nature of the secondary payload. You take a gamble in return for a discounted ride. It's appropriate for a prototype, as this is, and they'll probably still get their primary mission done--testing that it functions properly in orbit. Probably won't get to use it in their constellation if it works, which would have been gravy.
Security including obscurity works fine. There's nothing wrong with using it as a component, it just can't be the sole defense.
That is correct, only a few percent of active Firefox installations still run 3.6, and the majority of those are active less than once per week.
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It may be able to move into another orbit which they can use for testing, but there's no way they have enough fuel to reach their planned orbit.
I tried their Windows client this morning and it is trafficking in some kind of toolbar malware.

So the answer to the comment about what differentiates it from Drobpox.com? Dropbox and reputable companies never bundle browser toolbars.

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There's also a Story Bundle (http://storybundle.com/) that is happening right now.

I think they also did the first eBook bundle some months ago, before Humble Bundle.
7$ a month for 5 private repos is not worth it all. I acknowledge that Github is a business but I am not about to pay a lot of money for hosting all my repositories, when I can do the same on Bitbucket for free. And when the team grows enough that I'd have to pay Bitbucket, I'll do so willingly.
Some good books here. Well worth the buy.
This depends heavily on the legacy of the codebase you are working with, I imagine. I'm thankful that I (nearly?) never run into serious design flaws, because the people that built this code before me did a really good job. I could easily imagine a worst-case scenario where the code you're maintaining was written by a stream of interns, implementing requirements written by committee, over the space of a dozen years. Fundamental design flaws might be so ingrained, and the codebase so large, that you could not easily refactor it into something nicer.
> I personally did not enjoy the threat of expulsion in my inbox this morning. As, like probably many other, but the code up on Github because, well this is just what I do with code.

Then you're violating the conduct. They ask tons of times to not share your code, including on GH. So you should either use a private GH repo or host it elsewhere, privately.

Don't whine about not liking the "threat of expulsion" when it's perfectly clear that you shouldn't be doing that.

They shouldn't have to offer that, anyone who wants a private repo for free can use bitbucket, for instance.
Mercurial support is what has helped BitBucket a lot.
> Github is just greedy.

>> No, Github is a business.

Both comments are a bit silly. Atlassian (BitBucket's creator) is one of the more successful revenue "startups" while GitHub has hardly acted like a business to date.
tomorrow also looks unlikely...no confirmation yet about tomorrow's jump as of now.
The elephant in the room here is the Auteur Theory [1]. Film is a uniquely collaborative art--a director needs to communicate his or her vision to a very large team with specialized technical skills. While tempting to do it all yourself, that doesn't scale. There's a direct corollary here with running a company.

The craft, skill, and genius of great auteurs and entrepreneurs is inspiring a team with his or her vision to build great things together, not in doing it all him or her self.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur_theory
Then why not just advertise Bing itself?
We are indeed plugging away on the tools (and they are getting better each release :)

Firebug will be getting faster as well as they are working on putting Firebug on top of the new debugging API in Firefox (which has much better performance than the old).
Stash allows you to customize your deployment... database, server platform and develop plugins.

Having the source is critical to develop tightly integrated plugins for customization.
It does to me. It shows that someone at least took the time to work through a course. It also shows they are cool enough to know what coursera is and open minded enough to use it.
The iPhone 5: The Best, for the Most, for the Least
Facebook proposes new settlement over ads #thecircuit
You can fix bugs, customize the interface to your liking, stuff like this? It's basically another selling point, no? (Haven't tried it myself)
I've played around with their beta, and it's legit. Definitely much faster than taking twitter bootstrap and hand hacking it. (Full disclosure, I'm CEO of another launchpad company)
I was referring to the section that stated, "We have identified several individual students with solutions publicly posted (github included) who will be expelled from the course in the coming days if these solutions remain public." People who use a public repo to share their work will be expelled.
How values are categorized in JavaScript
> Firefox OS brings real freedom. Android is completely dependent on Google.

Maybe, but Mozilla is completely dependent on on Google as well.
Are you going to have a gap in your resume or are you working remotely? When you take a gap year before, during, or even right after College, it's not a big deal at all. Take a gap year after you start your career and you might have to start explaining it to future employers.
I'm a traditionalist (to me TCP connections use socket API in C) so can someone put this in context for me:

- could I write some JS script that runs directly in Chrome that accepts a socket connection, receives some data, sends responses and displays something in the browser?

- could this theoretical app be directly "deployed" from a web page on server in our LAN?

- does this solution help with my current situation where I have to help users poke holes into their McAffee firewall?

Could be useful for me since I frequently send small test utils to my team that communicate with our embedded systems via socket connections.
Atlassian is not Bitbucket's creator, they bought it a couple of years ago.
How to Incentivize Customers
> So when I hear people talk about how much they love their friends, that's their own balance... I can't help but wonder if they just haven't learned how to take care of themselves without external validation.

You espouse a false dichotomy.

There's more to loving friends than loving the external validation they may (or may not!) provide.

Go get some really extraordinary friends and try again.
Mars Curiosity 3D images by crossing your eyes.
Just thinking out loud...maybe the customer would like to make a modification or two? Is it better to _not_ have the source code?
Also the fuel has a large impact on the MPG since fuels differ in energy content per volume.
For me, this cycle is a different one:

(Step 0 is possibly 'get a bug report')

1. Write a test

2. Watch the test fail

3. Write code

4. Watch the test pass (if fail, goto 3)

5. Make the code pretty

6. Watch the test pass

7. Repeat

Instead of negatives, you're looking for positives. At the end you're rewarded with nicer code than you started with and green lights all the way down.

It's all about how you frame it - why would you frame the activity you spend most of your life doing negatively?
This is price of making things people care about.
There's some irony to be found here. More likely than not, someone just like the OP built the bug tracking app that encourages clients/customers/users to give negative feedback and report problems.

This is also highly apparent in social apps (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, etc). We encourage negative feedback when we give people a platform to do so. For better or worse, a lot of what we create is simply enabling the insatiable devil inside of people.

It sucks, but most people are unhappy and they will always look for another avenue to vent their frustrations. We just turned it into an easy-to-use textbox that's available 24/7.

You cannot expect people to be positive when the thing you gave them (seemingly, from their perspective) encourages negativity.

All that aside, you can't let people get to you. The world is getting increasingly judgmental and you just have to roll with the punches.
TechCrunch article on WiO App versus Shazam
Quick poll: How much would you pay for such a device?
$40?
$60?
$80?
$100?
The Linux kernel does it too. Ubuntu and Gnome do a steady release as well, just not quite as rapidly. Chrome isn't alone by a longshot.

This rapid release schedule is just the most efficient way for these teams to deliver new features in a stable way. Taking 1-2 years to land code in the next major, stable version of the product just isn't practical anymore.

People get way too hung up on the actual number.
Maximize your excitement
I can't fathom a reason for "several hundred tabs" unless your job specifically requires you to open that number of tabs for some (albeit strange) reason.
HTTPS Everywhere plugin from EFF protects 1,500 more sites